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Confederate troops began shelling to land. Union soliders began to surrender ready to fight for war.
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First major battle of the civil war.The Union soliders suffered near 3,000 causalties.
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Bloodiest day during the American Civil War. More americans were killed on this day than any other military history.
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Helped many to gain freedom to slaves in rebellious states and enlistment of all blacks.
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Organization of confederates. A terrorist group that immtimidates other ethnic groups and religious groups.
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Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour and is elected president of the United States.Grant receives 214 of 294 votes in the Electoral College.
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Congress Passed the amendment to help extend the vote to all male citizens. No matter what their race is or their background history.
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Equal use of public areas and amusement. Also the exculsion of blacks on jury duty was forbided
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Alexander Bell invented the first telephone. While trying to improve his telegram he invented something more complex. (telephones)
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The Berlin Conference talked about the terms for african american homes. How Belgium was expanded and so was the rest of European nations. Why? becaus they didnt have boundaries when choosing their land.
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Began the labor lockout and strike. Which resulted in a day-long battle with iron and steel workers and carneige steel.
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This is important because Ethiopia is one of the only countries in Africa who was able to completely resist European rule.King Menelik II used strategic advantages and played European countries against each other to maintain the Ethiopian independence.
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Plessy v. Ferguson is a landmark that the U.S decided to uphold the constitutions laws. Making racial segregation in public areas under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
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Orville amd Wilbur Wright had their first successful flight. They used their ideas to create this aircraft.
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This is important because this signifies when the European nations gained many natural resources and began to industrialize Africa. T
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He was shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Bosnia, on this day in 1914.
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The French held their anger against Germans until December of the same year,The longest battle of the war.
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Russian revolutionaries setup a Communist goverment, attempting to make peace with the Central Powers.
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Was ratified on this day of 1920. Granting all women citizens the legal right to vote.
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Congress passed the restirctiom of immigration. It targeted immigrants from southern and eastern Europe.
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He died of an stroke, He was found dead in hhis hotel room. President Coolidge took presidency.
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Fixed the the unemplyment rate from 25% to 14.3%. Which made a big difference in America from the Govnerment spending money on war.
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Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier of France and Mussolini Of Italy met in Munich and settled that Hitler should have the Sudetanland Of Czechoslovakia.
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WW2 took away majority of money while America was going through the Great Depression.
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Britian and France called war on Germany. Chamberlain annouced they were at war.
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Hitler launched the war against Holland and Belgium. Both countries were kept occupied.
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Japan enters World War II. Joining the German-Italian Axis coalition.
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Help destroy last remains of the Great Depression. U.S employment rate dropeed as low as 10%
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The United States drops an atomic bomb the first to be used in warfar on Hiroshima.killing 75,000 people
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The boundary that separated the warsaw pact countries From the NATO countries. It represented the way Europe was viewed.
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The Viet Minh attacks French forces.The First Indochina War, also called the Franco-Vietnamese War, begins.
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An American Program to help aid Europe. U.S gace support to help rebuild European countries.
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The court agreed that the segregation of students was unfair. Making a large- scale of desegregation.
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A NAACP memeber who refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white man. This led to the bus boycott responded from the black community.
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Berlin Wall was erected for about twenty-eight years. It kept Germans from fleeing to the West.
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Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.He wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," stating that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws
